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Celebrity Organ Recital by Martin Baker

Hear the organ of St Paul's as you've never experienced it before as Martin Baker improvises to the 1925 classic silent film The Phantom of the Opera, shown on a big screen.

Congregation in the Cathedral for an Advent service with Christmas trees lit

Maggie's Carol Concert

Join Maggie's at St Paul’s Cathedral on Thursday 7th December for a truly enchanting evening of outstanding music from world-class performers and seasonal readings from celebrity guests.

Anthony Reddie laughing

Martin Luther King Anniversary Sung Eucharist

Professor Anthony Reddie will preach at this Sung Eucharist as part of the programme marking the 60th anniversary of Dr Martin Luther King Jr’s historic visit to St Paul’s Cathedral.

Free and unticketed

Mark Oakley speaking in St Paul's Cathedral

Love Took My Hand: George Herbert and the Friendship of God Part iii

Part 3: Mark Oakley explores with the group some of Herbert’s poems about prayer. Recorded live at a St Paul’s reflective day.

Members of the Vicars Choral singing in the Quire at St Paul's Cathedral

All Saints Singing Assembly

A Singing Assembly for All Saints' Day with an address by the Chancellor of St Paul's Cathedral, Dr Paula Gooder, led by Tom Daggett and sung by the Vicars Choral. Learn the hymn 'O Thou, who at thy Eucharist didst pray’.

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Clergy Support Trust choral festival

The Clergy Support Trust Festival, the oldest choral festival in the world, takes place for the 368th time on Tuesday 9 May 2023 at 5pm at St Paul’s Cathedral.

Free with a ticket

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Filming and photography

There are some simple rules we ask our visitors to follow when taking photos inside the Cathedral, to respect the privacy of others.

Mark Oakley speaking in St Paul's Cathedral

Love Took My Hand: George Herbert and the Friendship of God Part ii

Part 2: Mark Oakley explores with the group some of Herbert’s poems about his theology of the friendship of God. Recorded live at a St Paul’s reflective day.

A white man with short grey hair stands in a wood panelled room by a large photo of St Paul's pulpit with a man preaching

Garth Hewitt recalls Dr Martin Luther King sermon

Singer/songwriter Garth Hewitt recalls Martin Luther King's sermon at St Paul's of 1964. He reflects upon its impact upon his own life and career.

Carys, a white woman with short brown hair wearing a clerical collar, stands in a garden square in a city

Such a fast God: R. S. Thomas' Poetry and Faith

Carys Walsh introduces the great 20th century poet R S Thomas’s life and work, and his themes of mystery, doubt and searching for God. The recording was made live at a workshop at St Paul’s Cathedral and the poems read are not included for copyright reasons. Some of the poems referenced can be read on the Poetry Foundation website.

Catherine Okoronkwo is a black woman with shoulder length braided hair, wearing a short sleeved black top with a clerical collar. She stands in the Cathedral high up on the triforium level, with the nave of the Cathedral behind her.

MLK Anniversary Choral Evensong Sermon Dec 2024

Sermon to mark the 60th Anniversary of Dr Martin Luther King Jr preaching at St Paul's Cathedral. The Reverend Dr Catherine Okoronkwo, Canon Steward, at Choral Evensong , on 8th December 2024.

Anthony Reddie laughing

MLK Anniversary Eucharist Sermon Dec 2024

Sermon to mark the 60th Anniversary of Dr Martin Luther King Jr preaching at St Paul's Cathedral. Professor Anthony Reddie, Director of the Oxford Centre for Religion and Culture, University of Oxford at Sunday Eucharist, on 8th December 2024.

An oil painting of poet, cleric and former Dean of St Paul's, John Donne.

'Close and secret, as our souls, we’ve been' : Barbara Pym’s Donne

Join us for a talk with Professor Alison Shell, Professor of Early Modern Studies at UCL, combining her interests in the literature and imaginative representation of Anglicanism, especially Anglican women’s writing, and the poetry of John Donne.

Free with a ticket

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Information for pre-booked school visits

All the information needed in advance of your school visit if you have booked through our schools booking portal.

A Guide Dog sitting down, with St Paul's Cathedral in the background

Guide Dogs Carol Concert

A Christmas concert to support the work of the Guide Dogs for the Blind Association

Four young children kneel on the floor of St Paul's Cathedral, with their faces close to the ground, looking through a golden grille through to the Cathedral Crypt.

Family activities: The Vikings

Join us for drop-in family activities during August, included with your sightseeing ticket.

Thursday 31st July, Friday 1st and Saturday 2nd August 2025, 10.30am until 3.30pm

Free with a ticket

Fig. 1. ‘The Revised design’: South elevation, drawn by Hawksmoor, c.1686 (© All Souls College, Oxford, G.81)

3. Upper elevations and west end, c. 1685

The dramatic increase in funding from 1686 was the main factor behind a major revision to the design that can be dated from mid-1685.

Resource library

Rowan Williams on screen presenting the seminar

Contemplation in the city - Rowan Williams

An academic seminar titled 'Contemplation in the city: some modern approaches to prayer in the urban landscape' in which Rowan Williams talks about about Madeleine Delbrêl. Part of the Koinonia lectures for 2022-23, co-organised by the Diocese of London, St Paul’s Cathedral and Westminster Abbey, which offer an opportunity to engage with the latest research from a wide range of theological and ecclesiological thinkers.

Paula Gooder speaking in St Paul's Cathedral

In Green Pastures: The Psalms in Prayer and Music

Paula Gooder introduces some of her favourite psalms and their themes of joy, lament, comfort and reconciliation, and reflects on how they can draw us closer to God. With live music from members of the St Paul’s Cathedral Consort performing settings of psalms from across the centuries and readings by Adjoa Andoh, actor and Licenced Lay Minister in the Church of England.